Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Egyptian hospitality

Egypt is after all a nice country with nice people. Regardless of what some of the foreigners living here might say, it's good to be here. A sad but true fact I actually agree with having spent some time here is that unfortunately lot of people are not that smart. But that's the education probably, or as I heard people describing it - the social education. The society "teaches" you certain things and you keep doing that cause it's the "right" way. This includes playing stupid in certain occasions and later on blaming the stupidity on misunderstandings of English or saying that something "got lost in translation".. You know. So probably 90% of the people you will meet here are dumb (or play dumb, whatever it is it has the same effect - you think they're acting dumb). But regardles of the IQ, I find the vast majority to be very friendly to me. 


So now it's time to get back to work. I have some PR stuff to do. But first I have to eat up all the sweets Mr. Ahmed brought me. I asked for "a small cookie for tea, and oh..give me something traditional Egyptian". This is what I got:




Next time I'll ask specifically for ONE piece! And you better keep that sleek and smooth memory of me, cause next time you see me when I'm back from here, I might not be as sleek and smooth anymore... =P
Ciao!

Update: I'm feeling a little dizzy cause of all that sugar, but it turned out that the whole thing was a gift (they didn't accept any money) so I had to eat it up. All of that. E-V-E-R-Y   P-I-E-C-E. Not so LEGEN...wait for it ...DARY! (Season 4 of How I Met Your Mother started this week, go and grab it now!) See ya...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This cake looks nice, and taste?? This amount of cake is nothing you can say ' piece of cake' ; in both meaning. Can I play the music which is listed on the right side or it's just the list? I'm using now company's network so some elements can be block but I want to make sure otherwise I will listen /Zrob sobie przerwe/ during lunchtime ;)

Jacob said...

Hey Luke ;)
All of it was delicious except but I liked the one with coconut mix (the one in the middle) the most!

The music listed to the right is my last.fm (a service which collects info on the music you are listining to). I know you can play quite a lot of tracks from the webpage (www.last.fm) but I'm not so sure you can specifically choose (cause that'd probably be illegal, right?). But you can type a artist or song, and the service will then play "similar" music. Works pretty well most of the time! :) Thanks for your comments btw!